Jasmine Wu

ww2

research

mastery

teaching

Current life

Jasmine is a design engineer studying cs & neuroscience at uci. Deeply interested in human-ai interaction, frontier tech (defense, space, autonomy), and ww2 history.

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Studying CS & Neuroscience @ UCI

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Researching Defense Tech Startups @ Contrary

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Designing Spacesuit interfaces @ NASA SUITS

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Building the Autonomy Stack @ FSAE Racing

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Incoming Product Designer @ Palantir

Past life

Building on Minecraft

Elementary - Middle School

Spent my childhood playing Minecraft instead of homework. Learned how to build from scratch with limited resources and iterate fast.

Clothing Business on Roblox

Sep 2020 - Feb 2021

Designed 60 assets on Roblox with the chromebook my high school gave us. Sold 2,000 assets in 4 months.

Obsessing over WW2 & History

Sep 2020 - Present :p

Became fascinated by military history after taking AP Euro with Mr.Baratti (he has an insane artifact collection!) Inspired me to enter defense.

Founding a clothing line

Mar 2022 - Jul 2024

Opened handmade streetwear business. Sold to 40 states and 10 countries and made 5 figures.

Building Robots @ FIRST

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023

Stepped out of my comfort zone into Robotics with no technical experience. School disbanded our first team, so I decided to build a new one.

Won 1st Place Design Award 2x out of 1,000 national participants.

Product @ HS Startup Incubator

June 2022 - Mar 2023

First taste of startup culture at my High School's Startup Incubator. Designed and built the E-commerce platform from scratch.


Won 1st Place nationally in Product Design.

Growth Designer @ Olivo Amigo

Jul 2022 - Mar 2023

Landed first design internship at a mediterranean startup scaling to a B2B subsidiary. Built their entire branding from scratch.

Hosted 24 Tech and Design Workshops

Nov 2024 - Feb 2024

Joined Design at UCI. Hosted 24 workshops to 500+ people and judged at 6 competition events.

UX Design Intern @ Develop for Good

Nov 2024 - Feb 2024

Tried my hand at using design for Social Good by joining the largest Student-led Pro Bono Org in the U.S. Led UX Research for an NPO.

Winning 15 Hackathons in 4 Months

Feb 2024 - June 2024

Went to my first Hackathon and became hooked. Went to a Hackathon every weekend for 4 months.

Recognized by Intel, Google, Meta, etc. and winning $70,000 in prizes.

Designing Mission Control Software @ NASA

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Took one small step out of my comfort zone and one giant leap into space tech. Designed a mission for a rover landing on the moon.

Winning the largest AI Hackathon in the world

Jun 2024 - Present

Won Grand Prize at Berkeley AI Hackathon ($68,000) and accepted into the SkyDeck Incubator Program (1% acceptance rate). Conversational AI Agents for emergency response.

And more to come...

Bookshelf

Outliers

book

Paul Graham

blog

Phoenix

song

Dan Koe Cast

podcast

Unit X

book

Big Think

channel

Ideation Board

Media

Interstellar

classic sci fi & the relentless pursuit of mission

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Imitation Game

underdog turned mathematical genius

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Dune II

feyd rautha, & the arena scene

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Random Insights

wu wei

directing my life with effortless action

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nonlinearity

appreciating the beauty of diverging systems

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nostalgia principle

unity through shared experience

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pursuit of mastery

become A+++ at one thing & hyper specialize

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Bucket list

become a part-time art & military historian

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learn to pilot a fighter jet (perhaps own one)

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write a children's book

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My life's mission: redefine how humans interact with complex systems.

Super curious about novel interfaces and human-ai collaboration & autonomy in unpredictable environments. Some things I've worked on:

‣ decision-making software for the military @ palantir

‣ conversational AI agents to reduce response times for 911 call centers @ berkeley skydeck

‣ adaptive reasoning system and mission control software for spacesuits @ nasa jsc

‣ telemetry dashboard & autonomy stack for electric race cars @ fsae


Sidequests: Hacking and Community-building

Hackathons.

I went to a hackathon every weekend of my freshman year of uni. Won 15/17 hackathons and flew 3,000+ miles.


People.

I hosted workshops, organized the largest design competition in Socal, and met interesting folks along the way.


Let's chat over coffee

For reference, I like matcha lattes with light ice and 2 shots of espresso 🍵

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